Senior Psychologist In Cardiology

The cardiac service is a busy fast paced service which has a large inpatient service including day cases, short and long term inpatient stays including ICU treatments. It also provides a cardiac outpatient service. The ability to flexibly manage and prioritise competing needs is an essential skill for this post. The successful candidate will work with parents, infants, children and adolescents in optimising psychological functioning and resilience. The cardiac psychologist has an advocacy role to ensure the child and family’s psychological functioning is represented and supported at a systemic level both within the family context and within the cardiac team.

The cardiac psychologist supports children and families to optimise their psychological adjustment and coping on an acute inpatient stay or in managing life with a chronic illness or life limiting illness on an outpatient basis. The successful candidate will work with a preventative focus in order to support optimal psychological coping and to minimise medical trauma in the context of an upcoming medical or surgical challenge. The focus of psychological intervention within a chronic illness model focuses on lifelong adjustment at different stages of emotional, social, educational and cognitive development. Grief work with children and families is highly relevant when working with life threatening conditions and procedures. Preparing for loss and supporting families through loss and after death is highly relevant.

Essential Criteria:

· Hold a recognised University degree or diploma obtained with first or second class honours in which psychology was taken as a major subject and honours obtained in that subject or hold a recognised qualification equivalent to above

And

· Hold a relevant post-graduate professional qualification in Psychology recognised by the Psychological Society of Ireland.

Or

· Hold a postgraduate professional psychology qualification validated by the Department of Health and Children. Applicants should refer to the Dept. of Health & Children regulations on the Employment of Psychologists in the Health Services, as well as, the PSI Guidelines on Post Graduate Training & Qualifications

· Be eligible for Senior Grade i.e. has a minimum of two whole years’ experience working at Staff Grade level, following completion of post graduate professional training.

· Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.

Applications for this post must be accompanied by a cover letter, setting out relevant experience that illustrates how the essential criteria listed above is met.

The criterion for short listing is based on the requirements of the post, as outlined in the eligibility criteria.

* Please note that you must submit a cover letter with your CV, this forms part of your application and CV’s will not be accepted without a detailed cover letter.

The closing date for submissions of CV’s and cover letter is Monday 9th September by 17:00 Applications must be completed through the advertised post on CHI.jobs by clicking ‘Apply for Job’.

Applications will not be accepted through direct email or any other method.

For informal enquiries for this post, please contact:

Dr Vincent McDarby,

Principal Psychologist Manager CHI at Crumlin

E: vincent.mcdarby@childrenshealthireland.ie

M: 086-8042077)

For other queries relating to this recruitment process, please contact

recruitment@childrenshealthireland.ie